"Scouts’ centennial marked with parade" by Associated Press | July 26, 2010
WASHINGTON — An estimated 10,000 Boy Scouts marched down Constitution Avenue yesterday to celebrate a century of scouting.
Organizers said the parade along the National Mall was the biggest gathering of Scouts in the nation’s capital since 1937 when President Franklin D. Roosevelt invited the Boy Scouts to hold the first national jamboree on the mall.
The Scouts set up a traveling exhibit on the mall, allowing visitors to try out a ropes course and learn about other scouting activities through a dome theater and a mobile museum.
The Boy Scouts of America will continue the 100th anniversary celebration with a national jamboree in Virginia.
More than 46,000 Scouts, leaders, staff, and volunteers from around the world are expected at the 2010 National Scout Jamboree, which starts today. Organizers also expect about 250,000 visitors.
Scouts from 12 to 18 years old will spend 10 days enjoying such activities as archery, fishing, robotics, and testing their own DNA.
That's all I needed to see.
The group has held the event at the Fort A.P. Hill Army base every four years since 1981....
There is my confirmation.
The mobile exhibit, called Adventure Base 100, is traveling to more than 40 locations across the country. The trip began in January at the Tournament of Roses in Pasadena, Calif., and will end in November in New York City....
Coming soon to a town near you:
About 10,000 Boy Scouts took part yesterday in the parade on Constitution Avenue in Washington. The National Scout Jamboree starts today in Virginia. (Drew Angerer/ Associated Press)
I'm not anti-American (what does that even mean anymore in the age of AmeriKa?); however, the scene brings up painful images of another regime that attempted world conquest -- and was destroyed by a world war.
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No tent for the pedophile scoutmasters?
Make sure you give them the Scout salute, sig heil (sigh)!
